Screening: Bitter Seeds
Thursday, October 4th 2012  7:00pm
Oakland, CA

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Volunteers who support the California Right to Know will host a community-screening event at The Grand Lake Theater on Thursday, October 4th at 7pm to support the effort to educate the public on the global issue of genetically modified crops. Bitter Seeds is an internationally award-winning film that explores the future of how we grow things, weighing in on the worldwide debate over the changes created by industrial agriculture. Companies like the U.S.-based Monsanto claim that their genetically modified (GM) seeds offer the most effective solution to feeding the world’s growing population, but on the ground, many small-scale farmers are losing their land. Nowhere is the situation more desperate than in India, where an epidemic of farmer suicides has claimed over a quarter million lives. Every 30 minutes one farmer in India, deep in debt and unable to provide for his family, commits suicide.

Location:
Grand Lake Theater
3200 Grand Avenue
Oakland, CA